Mary Elizabeth Winsted should be in an Alien franchise. Strong Ellen Ripley vibes in Kate.

The plot kept me interested throughout the whole movie, with a good twist, the fighting was decent and I was very charmed by Miku Martineau her performance. And it’s small things that make me love it: the way Japanese characters speak Japanese to each other (I hate when movies make non native English speaking characters talk English to each other) how you hear only Japanese music in this movie set in Japan or how people actually run out of ammo frequently while shooting their guns. I think it’s a very well done movie over all. It also gave me a little bit of a Cyberpunk 2077 vibe but I’m not sure if that’s just cause of the neon lights, the protagonist with a time limit cause they’re dying thanks to a mission gone wrong, the powerful Japanese as the antagonist or because there’s someone named V. Also fun but unrelated: BAND-MAID are in this!! My favorite rock band!!!

legitimately such a visually stunning and fun entry into the action genre. the number of times bullets run out is one of my favorite aspects of the action sequences, but also there's a scene later on that, combined with mary elizabeth winstead's increasingly horrifying deterioration, puts this on my body horror list. it's not a horror, but it's pretty and there's bodies being horrific, so it works. i'm really digging the recent action films that use just enough stylistic choices borrowed from video games to bump up the immersion. when i was checking on who the stunt coordinators were i saw some Highly Bitter articles calling this a john wick clone but honestly every action movie follows a formula because the formula works and being poisoned with radiation is a great reason for revenge even if it didn't involve a dog. also, i don't even fucking care i loved that ridiculous car chase scene

Another entry in the Netflix "movie of the week so don't be disappointed when it isn't as good as a proper movie" category. Some excellent super-hard violence. A very good turn by MEW. Great use of Japan. But... Very predictable and disappointing plot. Some of the dialogue is really simplistic and out of character. Enjoyable watch that is visually excellent but really heavily let down by its formulaic plot. 6.5/10

Just the typical cliche story. [spoiler]Betrayed by someone that the protagonist thinks is their friend but turns out to be the one who puts out a hit on said protagonist. Lame[/spoiler] Apart from Mary Elizabeth Winstead, there's no reason to watch this.